Joined: Sun October 8th, 2006, 03:08 GMTPosts: 1162Location: In The Basement, Mixin' Up The Medicine.

Understanding and translating the lyrics are hard in the later years. I was trying to translate for my aunt this year in pittsburgh. No matter how well I knew the songs, there were always points when I was just like "I don't really know...sorry.."

It's definitely a "short I" sound as in itch and shit. It's common for an ending T sound to be not very audible, especially so in a concert audience recording of someone who likes to mumble. I listened to it over and over and I hear no D sound in the holy part.

The options for what he's saying are:

holy shipholy shiholy shit

Holy Shit seems the most likely of those

The "I'm not gonna look there" seems like an impromptu rhyme with the preceding garbled line that sounds like "I know that I could find you in somebody care", meaning the original rhyme scheme has been altered, so holy shit is not rhyming with the previous line.

Joined: Sat January 1st, 2011, 20:57 GMTPosts: 6863Location: Out in the West Texas town of El Paso

I just heard this myself and it sounds like holy shit, but I don't know how any of the options listed make sense.

He changed up the lyrics at an earlier show something about "putting an order with the cook." I imagine he misses lines here and there and is forced to recuperate with new lines that fit.

He did that when i saw him in Bethlehem last year with Tangled Up In Blue, in fact he brought back a line that he hadn't used since the 80's and combined the Montage Street line and the topless place line by accident.

"All the people that we used to know...ah.. they're long gone nowSome have dissipated(?)some are masters of the tradeI don't know how....some of them left their beds unmademe I'm still on the road...I'm trying to stay out of the jointwe always loved the same things, just from a different point of viewTangled up in blue"

Thanks for that madagascar, I've been playing this boot in my car lately and I was thinking the same.

Have you ever listened closely to just before he sings "Something" as a tribute to George Harrison, I'm nearly positive I can hear him say:

"f**k that get, get it out of here"pause"thanks George"then starts singing?

Also, I've been playing the Cork from 2006 bootleg quite a bit lately (going to see him there again tomorrow night), I'm almose certain at around the 4minute mark of Just Like A Woman, I can here him say:

"It was raining from the first""And I was dying there of thirst""So I came in here"Then kind of off mike, you can here him joke to the band:"Where ever that is"

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